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coffin nail
noun
, Slang.
- a cigarette.
coffin nail
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coffin nail1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.
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Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.
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One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.
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I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
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Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.
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